John Connally – Texas on the Potomachttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac
Washington news with a Texas accentMon, 16 Nov 2015 20:28:37 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.151023179TexMessage: How much do you know about failed Texas presidential candidates?http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/01/texmessage-how-much-do-you-know-about-failed-texas-presidential-candidates/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/01/texmessage-how-much-do-you-know-about-failed-texas-presidential-candidates/#respondMon, 16 Jan 2012 08:29:51 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=27079Friends, Texans, countrymen, shed a few tears. We come to bury Perry not to praise him.
With all due respect to the Bard, Texas has had its share of Shakespearean political figures -- a few of whom have run for president. (Lyndon Baines Johnson, anyone?) This week's TEXclusive news quiz focuses on some of those Texans who ran for president -- and lost.]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/01/texmessage-how-much-do-you-know-about-failed-texas-presidential-candidates/feed/027079Analysis: Rick Perry’s entry reshuffles the GOP presidential deckhttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/08/analysis-rick-perrys-entry-reshuffles-the-gop-presidential-deck/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/08/analysis-rick-perrys-entry-reshuffles-the-gop-presidential-deck/#respondMon, 15 Aug 2011 01:28:07 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=18693Rick Perry’s entry into the 2012 presidential contest will shake up the GOP field and add a burst of excitement to a race dismissed by many insiders as lackluster. But there is no guarantee the heralded entrant will live up to his advance notice as the savior of the Republican Party.
“Everything that is being said about Rick Perry right now was said about (former Tennessee Sen.) Fred Thompson four years ago,” says Fergus Cullen, a New Hampshire Republican activist who has not endorsed any candidate. “It can be very hard to live up to the hype, and Governor Perry has gotten a lot of hype.”]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/08/analysis-rick-perrys-entry-reshuffles-the-gop-presidential-deck/feed/018693Perry Watch: Rick Perry breaks into the top 50 list of longest-serving governors in U.S. historyhttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/07/perry-watch-rick-perry-breaks-into-the-top-50-list-of-longest-serving-governors-in-u-s-history/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/07/perry-watch-rick-perry-breaks-into-the-top-50-list-of-longest-serving-governors-in-u-s-history/#respondFri, 01 Jul 2011 15:50:58 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=14365
Rick Perry already holds the record for the longest-serving Texas governor, but he's making his way up the list on a national scale. He's at #50 in American history and movin' on up . . . unless he moves on up to Washington, D.C.]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/07/perry-watch-rick-perry-breaks-into-the-top-50-list-of-longest-serving-governors-in-u-s-history/feed/014365